studies on
the dynamics of civilization

The
City of God, Science, Man

The
Nation

The
minimal platform that humanity needs as a starting platform for meeting
the Ice Age Challenge, is the concept of the nation.

No lesser platform
will enable humanity to develop the cultural and physical resources that
must be in place when the Sun goes inactive in the 2050s timeframe with a
70% reduction of its radiated energy. That's when the Ice Age begins and
all the northern nations become largely uninhabitable in the space of less
than a year.

It becomes the task
of the nation to build the infrastructures that assure its survival. While
international cooperation becomes also necessary, this won't be possible
without the core unity of a people as a nation, regardless of what
specifically this unity is built on.

But how does one
develop this core unity that creates a people's identity as a nation?

The
"City of God" concept is a scientific platform for stepping
above small-minded thinking. Small-minded thinking is a box from which one
can't see far, especially far into the future. The box is so tight that
the Ice Age that is near on the horizon is not even recognized as a
potential reality, even while it will disable the territory of Canada,
Russia, Europe, and parts of China, the USA, and India in potentially 30
years.

It will take a lot
of individual responsibility of the citizens of these nations to reach out
of the box of dense science illusions to see the writing on the wall
presented by physical evidence, and then to inspire their governments to
create new infrastructures for agriculture and human living (not just
survival) that will assure the continued survival of humanity under the
coming severe ice age conditions.

Some time ago I
produced a wide-ranging study of what is involved in stepping away from
the trap of small-minded notions with an expanding focus on the common
aims of mankind

The LaRouche
Political Action Committee also has produced a number of video studies
centered on the sense of the nation, which I have grouped together for
this purpose. One can see the nation, in the larger sense, as a people's
collective soul, a cultural soul.

The fact that the
coming Ice Age is not recognized on the horizon almost universally at this
low level, gives us some faint indication of the vast distance that must
be traversed from the current low-level stage untill the Ice Age Challenge
becomes acknowledged and is fully mastered.